A Thought on Rule 63
With seeing some current gender bend images of canon male characters, I got to thinking about the fans’ reactions to gender bends a lot.
When I write this, I am talking about fandom in general. It’s all stuff that I have noticed in the Kuroshitsuji, Hetalia, Team Fortress 2, and the Homestuck fandom
Even though I don’t follow a lot of fandoms, like Homestuck, I always see what’s going on between fans’ interaction due to Tumblr and the way it works.
The fandoms I mentioned are heavily influenced with a love for yaoi/gay fanart and fic. Whenever there is a post that gender bends the male characters to somewhat sexual females (I’m talking about design), there’s always a lot of rage and people going off about how sexist and inaccurate it is. For that line I am thinking TF2. A lot of people say, “YOU CAN’T FIGHT IN HEELS!”
However, I have seen more pictures than I can count of one of the TF2 canon male desings in slutty outfits…and yes, EVEN wearing heels!
Whenever a picture like that goes around though, it gets nothing but praise along with comments of, “Oh so sexy!”
Don’t you see this double standard here? In fandom in general, there are always lots of yaoi fanarts of guys doing sexual acts with one another, some that most people would find degrading, but most fans don’t say a word negatively about it.
The moment someone gender bends a character though and draws them with huge tits and being fucked up the ass? Well, you can be sure that is very sexist of you, and you are a horrible person for drawing a woman dressed like that and doing such acts!
Just remember, drawing a huge penis on a character is ≠ drawing huge breasts on the same character but of a different gender.